Say Cheeese!

Here they are, the hard to capture teeth! Since I snapped this photos a few days ago, the front teeth have both come through even more. It really changes the look of our baby Eloise to toddler Eloise. Now what to do about an aspiring vampire?? She hasn't even read Twilight yet... Trying to keep biting from becoming a fun thing to do.

Not sure why the underlining is on and I really don't care to figure it out!

Stack-tastic!

Eloise has become a master stacker. At first she just hit the ring to the base, we were pleased. Then she managed to get one ring onto the base, we were impressed. Finally she stacked them all in the right size/color order and with speed and determination, we were floored. Isn't it funny how the littlest things become AMAZING accomplishments when your child does it for the first time?!

I started the video after she had stacked the rings a few times and she was still relatively "in the zone"...you might hear drill sergeant Tom in the background :)

E-H-S

Catching up a bit...I had to write about my wonderful labor day weekend get away! My best-est girl friends from high school and I decided we needed a girls only get-away to celebrate our 30th birthdays (did we really need a reason though?). We rented a cabin in Sconny, loaded up the food and drinks, and ended up hanging out in pretty much the exact same spot for 48 hours. It was a blast. I love these girls and we laughed pretty much the entire weekend. Besides the fact that we all think we are hilarious, we also had MULTIPLE photo albums from high school as well as our senior yearbook. Those photos will haunt us forever :)

Before the weekend officially started I was so glad that Brigid finally got to meet Eloise!


A photo recap of the weekend:

Aaah, a large deck with a beautiful lake view


Cabin interior, very cozy


Lil' Grande


El capitan


The drink of the weekend...


Cheers!


Tribute to our hometown


The gingham hat


Maija + Maija = possible best high school photo


Working it out


Laughing


My lunch and Strong's unbelievable vinaigrette


Baby (in a corner)


Baby peeking in


Baby in danger


Me feeling bad for baby


Grill Master


My fav New Yorker


Something funny...


Smores


Great times!


The ladies, our one and only group photo!


It was good to rehash the old memories and also create new ones - thanks gals!

10 Months!

A tad bit late but Eloise is 10 months old! The biggest news is that her TEETH have finally showed up! A few days before she officially turned ten months I felt one of her bottom teeth poke through. Within another few days a second bottom tooth came through. Now, about a week and half later, I can feel one of her top front teeth and the one right next to it looks like it is coming along as well. Phew! I have yet to snap a photo of the elusive teeth but they sure are cute.


Here's our monkey girl, another challenging photo shoot!




Eloise is busy, busy, busy, and a little more busy. Her favorite activity is walking by holding on to different objects. She hasn't attempted any solo steps yet but she is getting very confident with her one hand hold. She loves pushing a little stroller around and also uses the stools in our kitchen as walkers... Her little pointer fingers are really getting good at pushing specific buttons. It is truly entertaining to watch her explore. It really cracks us up when she takes a break from playing to slam some water from her sippy cup.

Bedtime has gotten a little later, usually around 7:30ish and most of the time Eloise wakes up around 6:45-7:00. Still on two naps a day. She plays with her toys in her crib and likes throwing them on the floor. Often times after a nap I find Eloise sitting in her crib "reading" a book out loud. I'm so glad she loves books as much as I do!

We've been transitioning out of the baby foods (weird!) (scary!) but it is really challenging to get a spoon to Ellie's mouth and she seems to enjoy feeding herself (and hand-feeding Parker). Right now she LOVES raspberries, almost as much as she loves her zesty tomato puffs. Otherwise food preferences tend to be all over the place, one day she loves something and the next day she spits it out. She has a sippy cup of formula with her breakfast and then three bottles during the day, one before each nap and one before bedtime.

Eloise loves the swing!


Waking up at night seems to be a thing of the past (fingers, toes, and eyes crossed) but we haven't had to drag ourselves out of bed since sometime in July. It's weird, but even as she woke up less and less, it felt harder and harder to get out of bed in the middle of the night! I mentioned in a previous post about her crabby-pants which I now know ARE linked to teeth but fortunately it has not affected her nighttime sleep thus far.

Goofy girl!



Lots and lots of chatter from Eloise but no specific words yet. Awake from her nap and ready to play, have to wrap this up!

Tiny Dancer

I keep getting funny little videos of Eloise. The things they pick up, hilarious. As I mentioned previously, we have been waving to her a lot but have yet to get a self-initiated wave. We have danced around here and there but didn't really make a big deal of asking Eloise to dance. Maybe she was born with rhythm...